Status Select

Default shortcut: s + e
Opens the Status Select window, which lets you define conditions for selecting members, connection components, member ends, materials, holes, bolts, and welds.
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1 . Click the Status Select icon, which is pictured above. The icon can be found on the Tools page > Selection section.

Alternative: Invoke Status Select using the Find Tool by searching the command name and clicking the icon, which is pictured above.

2 . The Status Select window opens. When you are done using this window, press the OK button to close the window and select the item(s) in your model.

Alternative: Press the Cancel button to close the window and end the command.

  • Status Select lets you define conditions that select items in the model. When you press OK to close the Status Select window, Status Select automatically selects all of the items in your current view that satisfy those conditions. Status Select selects items. Status Display color codes or masks items. In other respects, Status Select and Status Display are the same. For more detailed information, refer to the Status Display and Status Select window.
  • This example selects all W18x35 beams in your current view. Notice that the conditional statement specifies that all conditions are true. Those conditions are Member section size = W18x35 and Member type = Beams.

  • Clicking in a blank space in the model causes the items to be unselected. To reselect those items, just reopen this window and press OK. The last settings that you applied on this window are remembered when you reopen the window.
  • Status Select ignores the selection filter. If items were selected prior to invoking Status Select, that selection is cleared and replaced with the selection specified on this window at the time you press OK.
  • With the exception of an Apply button, Status Select has all of the buttons that can be found on the Status Display window.
  • Status Select selection logic:

    Select: Members or Connection Components or Member Ends or Materials or Holes or Bolts or Welds. Enter the type of items that you want to be selected in the model when you press OK. Such items will be selected only if you have entered appropriate conditions and, for some items, if their members are displayed in a solids form and the appropriate option is turned on in Display Options.

    Item to Select Display Options Solids
      Members Members stick or solid
      Connection Components -- solid
      Member Ends Member ends always displayed stick or solid
      Materials -- solid
      Holes Holes solid
      Bolts Bolts solid
      Welds Welds solid


    Item to Select Appropriate Conditions
      Members All Conditions
      Connection Components Material status and Connection type
      Member Ends Conditions related to Left end settings or Right End Settings on a member edit window.
      Materials Material status
      Holes Hole status
      Bolts Bolt status
      Welds Weld status

    Example 1: You choose to select holes for the condition Detailing and processing > Needs to be detailed, which pertains to members. When you press OK, the holes on members that need to be detailed are selected.

    Example 2: You choose to select members for a condition that pertains to bolts. That condition is Bolt type is A325SC. When you press OK, members with A325SC bolts are selected.

    any or all or none:

    any independently evaluates each of the conditions in the priority you are working in and, where at least one condition is true for items of the specified type in your current view, causes items of that type to be selected.

    all evaluates each of the conditions in this priority and, where all conditions are true for items in the your current view, causes those items to be selected.

    none is the opposite of any. For example, if selecting any causes three members to be selected (when or OK is pressed), then selecting none causes all members except those three members to be selected.

    Note: For a priority with only one condition, any and all will give the exact same results.

    (Add New Condition): Pressing this button adds a new condition.

    The condition is added to this priority (the priority your cursor is in) and is a default condition. You can modify the condition to suit your purposes.

    Conditions are independently evaluated for their truth value. Their truth value can be used to select based on whether any or all or none is selected.